Calling

Fed when you are not hungry, how can you enjoy
      your birthright of possessing
            an appetite?

Born into Life among people
      who rush at you with answers
            before you have even realized
                  that you have questions,
How will you come to Understanding?

Do not let them off the hook too easily
      by assuming that they in any majority
            mean you well. They clamor for your validation
                  because they are afraid
                        of the questions that Silence
                              raises
And they need you to raise your new voice
      to block a new breach in the wall
            they build against it.

If they harangue you
      loudly and long enough, they believe,
            you will not discover
That you are that breach.


July 21–27 and October 2, 2004 Copyright © 2004 by David Newkirk (david.newkirk@gmail.com). All rights reserved.
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